Roy T. Fielding wrote:
... What the IETF should be doing is restricting the number of editors to 5, list only the editors on the front page (clearly marked as such), place the editors' addresses in a section called Editors (if they differ from the complete set of authors), and then have another section for Authors that would include all of the people whose copyrightable text has been incorporated under the Contribution terms. ...
I do agree that if we have a limit for the front matter, it should name editors, not authors.
It seems to me that, assuming we agree on "editors are authors", all of them could be put into an "Authors" section (with the editors marked as they already are).
That leaves us with the question whether any contributor (IPR-wise) needs to be called "author". Not sure about that. But if we don't call them authors, they should be listed in a agreed-upon place in the spec. Because of the IPR implications, that probably should also include contact info, just as for authors.
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